Presidential Communications
The first president, as commander in chief, to send an email.
Who is Bill Clinton?
July 4, 1776
What is the passage of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress?
The two educational institutes combined to create UW-Platteville.
What is the Wisconsin Mining School and Platteville Normal School.
This dam between Nevada and Arizona built between 1931-1936 during the Great Depression impounds Lake Mead and the Colorado River.
What is Hoover Dam? (formerly known as Boulder Dam)
The former colonial power over Vietnam and the Indochina region who sought to reassert control over the region following World War II.
What is France?
The first president to address the nation live on television.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
December 7, 1941
What is the surprise attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor?
Native American cultures from around the Woodland Period built these structures often in the shapes of animals or symbols near river bluffs or lakes.
What are effigy mounds?
These tunnels opened in 1973 and 1979 sit at 11,158 feet above sea level and carry I-70 below the continental divide in Colorado and named after a general and president for whom the interstate highway system is named.
What is the Eisenhower Tunnel? (officially the Eisenhower–Edwin C. Johnson Memorial Tunnel)
This resolution following a supposed confrontation by naval forces in the body of water for what the resolution is named after authorized LBJ to "take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia."
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
The first president to appear on televison.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
November 9, 1989
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
You can visit the home of this president and Civil War General in Galena, Illinois.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This bridge connecting the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan together opened on November 1, 1957, and is named for the nearby straits, island, and city and replaced aging rail and car ferries.
What is the Mackinac Bridge? (also known as the Mighty Mac or Big Mac)
Following the war, Saigon would be renamed to honor this communist leader.
Who is Ho Chi Minh/What is Ho Chi Minh City?
The first president to have a telephone in the White House.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
June 6, 1944
What is D Day, Normandy Landings, Invasion of Normandy?
This French Canadian who settled in Iowa and received permission to mine led by the Spanish and Meskwaki has a major city and bridge named after him.
Who is Julien Dubuque?
This highway was constructed in Canada during World War II, but the United States bore the full cost and transferred ownership to Canada after the war.
What is the Alaska Highway? (aka Route de l'Alaska, Alaskan Highway, Alaska-Canadian Highway, or ALCAN Highway)
This herbicide containing toxic dioxin was used by the United States in Vietnam and has had lingering health effects on the population.
What is Agent Orange?
The first president to make a radio address.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
February 24, 2022
What is the launch of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine?
The Battle (Massacre) of Bad Axe concluded this war between the United States and Sauk and Meskwaki tribes led under a leader after whom the war is named.
What is the Black Hawk War?
This railway was constructed between 1891 and 1916 5,772 miles - the longest railway in the world.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railway? (Also accepted Great Siberian Route, Transsib, Транссибирская магистраль.)
This communist offensive had 80,000 combatants, and 100 targets and featured the U.S. Embassy in Saigon being attacked; while a large military and political failure for the communists, it damaged the credibility of the United States.
What is the Tet Offensive?